Re: PTS alocation problem with 2.6.4/2.6.5

[Andrew Morton]

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I noticed serious problem with PTS alocation on kernels 2.6.4 and 2.6.5:
> It seems that once alocated /dev/pts entries are never reused, leading to
> pty alocation errors. The testing system is fully compiled with kernel 2.2.x
> headers (including glibc), but informations from my coleagues using systems
> compiled on 2.4/2.6 headers seems to behave similarily.
> The testcase and used kernel configuration are shown below.
> Kernel 2.6.3 does not have this problem.
> Is it bug or feature (and I am doing sth wrong) ?

You need a glibc upgrade - we broke things for really old glibc's.  We're
(slowly) working on fixing it up.

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